6^ 



£ s. d. 



Cash at the Banker's 1784 4 9 



Cost of £5000 Red. 3 per Cents . . . 4563 19 10 



6348 4 7 



The Liabilities at the same period were esti- 

 mated at 1522 8 6 



Leaving a Cash Balance in favour of the So- 

 ciety of 4825 16 1 



This result presents an increase of £l76 125. 6d. as com- 

 pared with the same day in the preceding year. 



IL PUBLICATIONS. 



With a view of securing greater regularity in the issue 

 of the printed Proceedings, which are now become the 

 principal scientific organ of the Society, and have lately 

 derived increased importance from the large number and 

 great value of the communications made to the scientific 

 meetings, some little alteration has been made in the mode 

 of publication adopted since the last Anniversary. The 

 Proceedings, both with and without Illustrations, are now 

 published regularly three times in the year. The first 

 Number, issued in April, gives the papers read during the 

 months of January, February, and March ; the second, 

 published in July, those read up to the termination of the 

 annual session of the Society ; and the third, published in 

 the following February, contains the communications made 

 to the autumnal meetings before Christmas, and completes 

 the Volume for the preceding year. The Volume for last 

 year is now upon the table. It contains a large number 

 of papers relating to every branch of Zoology. The Illus- 

 trative Plates, forty- eight in number, represent the most 

 novel and interesting subjects of these communications. 



The First Part of the Proceedings for the present year 

 is also on the table. 



Of the Transactions, since the last Anniversary, Part VI. 

 of Volume IV. has been issued. It contains all the smaller 

 papers read before the Society, which the Committee of 

 Publication had decided upon publishing in this form up 

 to the end of 1858. They relate principally to Ornithology, 



